Policy Integrity in the Newshttp://policyintegrity.org
News coverage of the Institute for Policy Integrityenednai@nyu.eduCopyright 20192019-03-20T22:05:00+00:00Obama-Era Oil Leases Broke the Law by Not Assessing Climate Impact, Judge Ruleshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/climate/wyoming-climate-change-drilling-interior.html
policy-integrity-3421“What this decision says is, in evaluating the environmental consequences of the lease, an agency has to look not just at the consequences of the impacts immediately surrounding the lease but also the consequences down the road of burning the fuel once it’s extracted,” said Richard L. Revesz, an expert on environmental law at New York University. “That’s enormously important.”

Source: The New York Times

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Natural Resources, Environmental Health, Jobs and Regulation,2019-03-20T22:05:00+00:00The Real Reason the Trump Administration Is Constantly Losing in Courthttps://wapo.st/2TgI3Nm
policy-integrity-3420Two-thirds of the cases accuse the Trump administration of violating the Administrative Procedure Act, a nearly 73-year-old law that forms the primary bulwark against arbitrary rule. The normal “win rate” for the government in such cases is about 70 percent, according to analysts and studies. But as of mid-January, a database maintained by the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law shows Trump’s win rate at about 6 percent.

Source: The Washington Post

]]>Environmental Health, Jobs and Regulation,2019-03-20T22:04:00+00:00Trump’s Changes to Title X Put the Health of Low-Income Women in Dangerhttps://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lienke-title-x-family-planning-20190306-story.html
policy-integrity-3397The Department of Health and Human Services’ new rule was accompanied by an assessment of its probable costs and benefits. Conspicuously absent from the tally: any acknowledgment of harms that the rule will impose on low-income women by reducing their access to affordable healthcare.

Source: Los Angeles Times (Opinion)

]]>Safety and Consumer Protection,2019-03-06T16:58:00+00:00EPA Is Rolling Back Protections with Methodology No Respectable Economist Would Endorsehttps://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/432471-epa-is-rolling-back-protections-with-methodology-no-respectable
policy-integrity-3396The agency has invented a new, unnatural way of evaluating regulatory cost that finds no support in the economics literature or in the regulatory practices of prior administrations of either political party.

Source: The Hill (Opinion)

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Jobs and Regulation,2019-03-04T16:55:00+00:00Less Scandal, Equal Dysfunctionhttps://slate.com/technology/2019/02/andrew-wheeler-epa-dysfunctional-scott-pruitt-scandal.html
policy-integrity-3393Andrew Wheeler’s EPA may not be as dramatic as Scott Pruitt’s, but it still suffers the pathologies that make its work poor quality—and unlikely to hold up in court.

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Electricity, Jobs and Regulation,2019-02-19T16:52:00+00:00For Trump Administration, It Has Been Hard to Follow the Rules on Ruleshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/upshot/for-trump-administration-it-has-been-hard-to-follow-the-rules-on-rules.html
policy-integrity-3336An analysis by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law shows that more than 90 percent of court challenges to major Trump deregulatory actions have been successful so far. In a typical administration, the government wins on such challenges around 70 percent of the time, said Richard Revesz, a law professor at N.Y.U. who specializes in environmental law. “This is truly aberrational,” he said.

Source: The New York Times

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Jobs and Regulation,2019-01-22T15:26:00+00:00Marketplace Morning Reporthttps://www.marketplace.org/2019/01/15/world/confirmation-process-begins-week-epa-chief
policy-integrity-3331Senators may ask Wheeler about his plans to ease carbon pollution regulations on coal plants. That and many other initiatives will face legal challenges, including plans to roll back auto fuel efficiency and air pollution standards. Richard Revesz at NYU Law doubts if any will survive.

Source: NPR

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Jobs and Regulation,2019-01-15T19:51:00+00:00Democratic AGs May Do U-turn on Lawsuitshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2019-01-10/democratic-ags-may-do-u-turn-on-lawsuits-podcast
policy-integrity-3320Richard Revesz, a professor at NYU Law School and director of the Institute for Policy Integrity, discusses how Democratic attorneys general, riding a blue wave into office, may do a U-turn on lawsuits brought by their Republican predecessors – many of which challenge tighter federal environmental regulations. He speaks with Bloomberg’s June Grasso.

Source: Bloomberg Radio

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Jobs and Regulation,2019-01-09T16:40:00+00:00Trump’s Rule Threatens Booming $4B ‘Restoration Economy’https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2019/01/03/stories/1060110745
policy-integrity-3319By using data from 1999, the administration ignored any savings those business provided developers, according to Jason Schwartz, legal director at the New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity. The lacking analysis underscores how the Trump administration’s pro-industry rhetoric ignores the ecological restoration business, he said.

Source: Greenwire

]]>Environmental Health, Jobs and Regulation,2019-01-03T16:38:00+00:002019 Outlook: Four Things About Trump’s Push to Deregulatehttps://about.bgov.com/blog/2019-outlook-trumps-push-deregulate/
policy-integrity-3318According to a tally of lawsuits by the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law, as of Dec. 10 agencies had won just two out of 24 cases challenging their deregulation, a win rate of 8 percent.

Source: Bloomberg Government

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Jobs and Regulation,2018-12-21T16:35:00+00:00On Climate, the Facts and Law Are Against Trumphttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/opinion/climate-report-trump.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
policy-integrity-3245A recent government report predicts dire consequences from climate change. That complicates efforts to weaken environmental laws.

Source: The New York Times

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Transparency,2018-12-04T14:59:00+00:00For Trump’s Deregulatory Agenda, a Reckoning Nearshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/for-trumps-deregulatory-agenda-a-reckoning-nears-1543894538
policy-integrity-3244Mr. Trump’s ambitious agenda has been slowed, however, by unusually high losses in the courts. Since summer 2017, the Trump administration has lost 20 of 22 court cases challenging its deregulatory actions, according to data compiled by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Jobs and Regulation,2018-12-03T14:58:00+00:00The Institute for Policy Integrity Brings Economic Sense to Regulatory Debateshttp://bit.ly/2APTjZF
policy-integrity-3240The tumultuous state of US environmental regulation during the Trump administration was implicit in the title of the 10th anniversary conference of NYU Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity: “Energy and Environmental Policy: The Quest for Rationality.” But when environmental policy experts convened at the Law School in late September, the two keynote speakers, both seasoned veterans of regulatory battles, articulated reasons for cautious optimism.

Source: NYU Law News

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Transparency,2018-11-30T15:48:00+00:00Trump Administration’s Strategy on Climate: Try to Bury Its Own Scientific Reporthttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/25/climate/trump-climate-report.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
policy-integrity-3239“This report will be used in court in significant ways,” said Richard L. Revesz, an expert in environmental law at New York University. “I can imagine a lawyer for the Trump administration being asked by a federal judge, ‘How can the federal government acknowledge the seriousness of the problem, and then set aside the rules that protect the American people from the problem?’ And they might squirm around coming up with an answer.”

Source: The New York Times

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Transparency,2018-11-25T15:46:00+00:00Partisan Politics Over Wise Energy Policyhttps://itk.thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/417263-partisan-politics-over-wise-energy-policy
policy-integrity-3228The largest expanse of pristine wilderness in the United States, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), is at risk of becoming a staging ground for heavy machinery, with oil drilling projects threatening to displace and damage wildlife and natural ecosystems.

Source: The Hill (Opinion)

]]>Natural Resources, Jobs and Regulation,2018-11-17T18:36:00+00:00Will Trump’s Car Rules Rollback Survive in Court?https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2018/11/09/stories/1060105777
policy-integrity-3215Richard Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University, said plaintiffs would likely employ a two-pronged argument to defend the waiver from the Trump administration’s attack.

Source: Climatewire

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Jobs and Regulation,2018-11-09T21:58:00+00:00Big Oil Won Big In The Midterm Electionshttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/big-oil-midterms-environment-failures
policy-integrity-3216“Our state has spoken loud and clear that we recognize the importance of the industry to the state’s economic well-being,” said Colorado Petroleum Council Executive Director Tracee Bentley, in a statement. The council claimed that passage of the “setback” rule would effectively outlaw new drilling in the state and cost some 150,000 jobs. (Such industry job estimates are almost invariably excessive, an Institute for Policy Integrity study showed in 2012.)

Source: BuzzFeed News

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Jobs and Regulation,2018-11-07T22:00:00+00:00Democratic Electoral Gains Will Give a Boost to California in Fight Against Trumphttp://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-midterm-fallout-california-20181107-story.html
policy-integrity-3214“It’s significant that Democrats now have this power,” said Richard Revesz. “A lot of the efforts to roll back Obama administration regulations are on weak legal footing. There are glaring legal or analytical weaknesses. Bringing attention to them can be a good strategy.”

Source: Los Angeles Times

]]>Climate Change and Energy Policy, Jobs and Regulation,2018-11-07T21:56:00+00:00Trump Rollbacks Causing Premature Deaths Should Not Be Celebratedhttps://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/413157-trump-rollbacks-causing-premature-deaths-should-not-be-celebrated#bottom-s
policy-integrity-3191The administration’s so-called accomplishments, which include rolling back hazardous waste regulations and consumer protection rules, will inflict great harms on the American people, resulting in additional deaths, illnesses, and bankruptcies. The damages done by these heedless regulatory rollbacks significantly exceed the cost savings for regulated industries.